Enviaments recents

Can appealing to children’s rights help to solve the non-identity problem in cases of procreation? A number of philosophers have answered affirmatively, arguing that even if children cannot be harmed by being born into ...

“Children”, economist Nancy Folbre notes, are “an expensive crop” (Folbre 2008: 65). Raising an average child in the UK till age 21 is estimated to cost parents £231,843, more than the average house; in the US the average ...

Theorists of egalitarian justice generally assume that the principles they formulate apply to a group of individuals whose creation and size is taken as given. Yet many of the policies egalitarians favour distribute the ...

Common-sense morality and legislations around the world ascribe normative relevance to biological connections between parents and children. Procreators who meet a modest standard of parental competence are believed to have ...

Many papers on gender inequality focus on one or more respects in which
women, as a group, fare worse than men, with some also noting respects in
which gender discrimination and oppression is bad not only for women ...

Children's vulnerability gives rise to duties of justice towards children and determines when authority over them is legitimately exercised. I argue for two claims. First, children's general vulnerability to objectionable ...

Because families disrupt fair patterns of distribution and, in particular, equality of opportunity, egalitarians believe that the institution of the family needs to be defended at the bar of justice. In their recent book, ...

Three claims about love and justice cannot be simultaneously true and therefore entail a paradox: (1) Love is a matter of justice. (2) There cannot be a duty to love. (3) All matters of justice are matters of duty. The ...

The family, and in particular the parent-child relationship that constitutes
its core, is attracting increasing attention among political philosophers.
Contemporary theorists of justice, who, until a couple of decades ...

Egalitarian theories assume, without defending it, the view that the costs of children should be shared between non-parents and parents. This standard position is called into question by the Parental Provision view. Drawing ...

Serena Olsaretti (Naples, Italy, 1971) is a political philosopher at
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), where she holds a research
professorship with the Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced
Studies (ICREA). Before ...

According to Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift, parents have a limited and conditional moral right to deliberately shape their children’s values and interests in light of their own particular comprehensive convictions. Their ...

Analytic philosophers tend to agree that intentional parental genetic shaping and intentional parental environmental shaping for the same feature are, normatively, on a par. I challenge this view by advancing a novel ...

Andorra, a microstate located in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, used to be characterized by strict bank secrecy and the absence of direct taxes on income. However, given the pressure exerted by the European Union ...